Writing and Deleting

I spent the day in classes and learned a lot about this and that but my favorite thing today was related to writing (of course). I'll loosely paraphrase Dr. Laurel Walsh:

"Write drunkenly, happily, voraciously. Delete soberly, judiciously, and freely."

This goes back to all the posts about the importance of letting go of text: one of the hardest things for a writer to do.